Ben Daniels-headed Philadelphian sextet released the third album, as a total sum, having the longitude of 33 minutes on 11 tracks. Vis à vis with their previous, shoegaze-meets-doo wop album Ashes Grammar (2009) it is used to be a bit more straightforward shoegaze/atmospheric/electronic pop release, though, in principle, the basic elements for manipulating to get involved in new patterns are previously the same ones, featuring catchy harmonic walls, burbling keyboard surfaces, blissful, female-based vocal oozings, fuzz-infused guitars, and lo-fi-inflected, synth-driven, rough-formatted cadences at times. Aside 100/0 (Snowdays forever), which sounds as a shoddily nude tribute to Stereolab and Laetitia Sadier, it might be watched upon it as a possible go-ahead, even rock-ish format for the English-French combo. Yet, nowadays, when Stereolab might be considered as an ensemble without its proper place and time, reflecting via retrodelic memories upon the past time cliches only while ASDIG has much more to add for, because of having incorporated the influences by the poptronica/chillwave movement and vital shoegaze hooks as well.
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